June 2018 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Export to xml no longer works
by Rik Kabel 11 Jun '18

11 Jun '18

With TL18, the following produces the expected xml and associated files. \setupbackend [export=yes] \starttext \input knuth \stoptext With current betas, the xhtml file contains: <error>invalid xml file - parsed text</error> and the other files have similar content. Can anyone reproduce the error or offer a workaround? -- Rik

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OT: Pexeso
by Procházka Lukáš Ing. 11 Jun '18

11 Jun '18

Hello, there is a card game called "Pexeso". It is played by two or more players with pairs of cards of identical pictures. Initially, cards are spread regularly and are turned upside down. The first player turns two cards; if they are identical, he picks them and continues turning two more cards. Once both cards do not show the same picture, the next payer follows. The game stops when there are no more cards to turn. Who collects more pairs of cards is winner. Usually, you can buy Pexeso of Barbies, princesses, road signs, castles, ... My little son (of nearly 4 years) ignores all above as he is interested (or even fascinated) by construction machinery and woodworking tools. So I decided to create a Pexeso of woodworking tools for him with the following points: - Pictures to be processed are placed in the subdirectory called "1" (may be changed). - Pictures whose name do not start by "-" have the first letter uppercased shown on the card ("education" for letters). - You may simply change the text or MP code to draw the card back. - Backs of cards are intentionally a bit randomized (I am curious how quickly children are able to recognize some cards by their backs). - When the number of cards is not multiple of two (also my case), two more backs of cards will be drawn. This is intended and it comes due to some simplicity of the code; and it doesn't matter to anything. - Source uses UTF-8 coding. - There are no dependencies to external files (excluding pictures). - The source file is attached. Due to the size (~2.3 MB), all data including the result and source pictures are available for download here: http://leteckaposta.cz/611754576 (The link will be valid for ~27 days from now.) Enjoy! Best regards, Lukas -- Ing. Lukáš Procházka | mailto:LPr@pontex.cz Pontex s. r. o. | mailto:pontex@pontex.cz | http://www.pontex.cz | IDDS:nrpt3sn Bezová 1658 147 14 Praha 4 Mob.: +420 702 033 396

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sort order in registers (indexes)
by Henning Hraban Ramm 10 Jun '18

10 Jun '18

Ahoi, usually, uppercase index entries are sorted before all lowercase entries. Is there a simple setup to change that? i.e. I need the sorting sum - Sun - sunny instead of Sun - sum - sunny I know I can influence sort order for single entries, but I’d like a general setting. (Diacritics are handled as wanted.) \starttext \strut \index{Sun}\index{sun}\index{Suomi}\index{suave} \index{sunny}\index{sum}\index{Sumatra}\index{summon} \index{sample}\index{super} \index{şample}\index{südlich}\index{súper} \index{şun}\index{sün}\index{şüñ} \completeindex \stoptext Greetlings, Hraban --- https://www.fiee.net http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.dreiviertelhaus.de GPG Key ID 1C9B22FD

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ToC as itemize
by Henning Hraban Ramm 10 Jun '18

10 Jun '18

Hi again, Alan Bowen invented this interesting setup where the table of contents is to be included in an itemize. E.g. Foreword ........ I 1. Smth unrelated .. II 2. Author: Title ... 1 3. Author: Title ... 5 etc. Only 2. and 3. come from a "list" of chapters, other entries are added manually. The attached not-really-minimal working example also handles the author setup – IRL we use a lot of user variables for metadata that needs different representation in ToC and titling. This is the core code: \define[1]\ChapterTocEntry{% \startitem \structurelistuservariable{author}: #1\leaderfill\currentlistentrypagenumber \stopitem } \definelist[chapter][% alternative=b, interaction=all, criterium=all, textcommand=\ChapterTocEntry, pagecommand=\gobbleoneargument, ] \startContentsList %\sym{}Preface\leaderfill\at{Preface} % Preface unnumbered \startitem Test entry\leaderfill 123 \stopitem \placelist[chapter][criterium=all] \stopContentsList The actual problem: The chapter list entries don’t adhere to the formatting of the itemize. I guess there’s some expansion problem, due to the \startitem inside if the textcommand? Greetlings, Hraban --- https://www.fiee.net http://wiki.contextgarden.net GPG Key ID 1C9B22FD

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Bug with \setuptagging and layers
by Rik Kabel 10 Jun '18

10 Jun '18

When the first line of the following example is removed, all is well. With it present, the image in the layer has the text "image" added to the image. This problem is not present in, inter alia, TL18. \setuptagging [state=start] \setupexternalfigures [location=default] \definelayout [testpage] \definelayer [testpage] [width=\paperwidth,height=\paperheight] \startsetups [testpage] \setlayerframed [testpage] [preset=rightbottom,hoffset=.25in,voffset=.25in, background=color,backgroundcolor=yellow] {\externalfigure[cow.pdf]} \stopsetups \setupbackgrounds [page] [setups=testpage,background={testpage}] \starttext \startmakeup [testpage] \framed[background=color,backgroundcolor=yellow] {\externalfigure[cow.pdf]} \stopmakeup \stoptext -- Rik

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\seeindex with subentries
by Henning Hraban Ramm 08 Jun '18

08 Jun '18

This MWE: """ \setupinteraction[state=start] \setupregister[index][n=1] \starttext My \index{dog}dog is a \index{dog+bullterrier}bullterrier. He doesn't like \index{cat}cats. There are a lot of \index{cat+stray}stray cats, but only a few of them are \index{cat+Siamese}Siamese. I don’t think there are \index{cat+Burmese}Burmese cats. \seeindex{cat+obese}{cat+Siamese} \seeindex{hound}{dog} \completeindex \stoptext """ ... shows two problems at once: """ c cat 1 Burmese 1, see cat+Siamese Siamese 1 stray 1 d dog 1 bullterrier 1 h hound see dog """ While the reference "hound see dog" is properly formatted, cat+obese is missing (i.e. sorted under Burmese) while there is no \index{cat+obese}, and the reference "cat+Siamese" is shown as-is, not properly formatted. That means, refering to index sub-entries is broken at the moment (current beta and at least several previous). Greetlings, Hraban --- https://www.fiee.net http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.dreiviertelhaus.de GPG Key ID 1C9B22FD

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bidi protocols
by Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي ح امد 07 Jun '18

07 Jun '18

Greetings, mtx-context | current version: 2018.06.02 22:34 In the following, bidi does not work: ======= \setupdirections[bidi=global] \starttext \definedfont[file:almfixed.otf*arabic at 14pt] Test امتحان test \righttoleft Test امتحان test \stoptext ======= See attached. This used to work: Is there a new protocol or something that I'm missing? Thank you in advance. Best wishes Idris -- Idris Samawi Hamid, Professor Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80512

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How to scale math with text?
by Henri Menke 06 Jun '18

06 Jun '18

Dear list, probably I'm just missing something obvious. How can I scale the math font size to match the text font size locally? In the following MWE text is scaled to 10pt but math still appears at 12pt. \starttext {\tfx ABC $DEF$ GHI\par} \stoptext Cheers, Henri

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location of converted images
by Jano Kula 06 Jun '18

06 Jun '18

Dear list, images converted on-the-fly (m_k_i_v_*) are stored in the same folder as original images. Is there an option to change cache folder? Original files are stored in the read-only location. Script convert offers --outputpath option, but I would like to make the switch with script context, using mtxrun --script context <file>. Taco's talk 'mtxrun scripts' at the meeting <http://meeting.contextgarden.net/2018/abstracts.shtml> will hopefully show us even more magic. Thank you, Jano

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First example in xml-mkiv.pdf
by Keith McKay 06 Jun '18

06 Jun '18

Dear List, In my continuing effort to improve my ConTeXt skills I thought I would have a look at XML and ConTeXt. Note: I have no XML skills but, "in for a penny, in for a pound", as they say over here. I started by looking at the very first example on page 5 of "Dealing with XML in ConTeXt mkiv" and straight away hit a problem. There is a typo in the first line of the XML file which I corrected: <?xml version='1.0' standalone='yes?> should be <?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?> However when I ran the file using the tex file it only produced a 3 page pdf with a contents page and 2 title pages and no other text. Here is the XML file which is the similar to the one on page 5 but with two sections rather than one: <?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?> <document> <section> <title>Some title</title> <content> <p>a paragraph of text</p> <p>another paragraph of text</p> </content> </section> <section> <title>Another title</title> <content> <p>a paragraph of text</p> <p>another paragraph of text</p> </content> </section> </document> The TeX file is cut and pasted from pages 5 and 6 of xml-mkiv.pdf: \startxmlsetups xml:demo:base \xmlsetsetup{#1}{document|section|p|itemize|item}{xml:demo:*} \stopxmlsetups \xmlregisterdocumentsetup{demo}{xml:demo:base} \startxmlsetups xml:demo:document \starttitle[title={Contents}] \placelist[chapter] \stoptitle \xmlflush{#1} \stopxmlsetups \startxmlsetups xml:demo:section \startchapter[title=\xmlfirst{#1}{/title}] \xmlfirst{#1}{/content} \stopchapter \stopxmlsetups \startxmlsetups xml:demo:p \xmlflush{#1}\endgraf \stopxmlsetups \xmlprocessfile{demo}{demo.xml}{} This seemed such a simple example and I'm a bit perplexed as to why it did not work. Can somebody explain why no paragraphs are showing up? I'm using: ConTeXt ver: 2018.04.04 00:51 MKIV beta fmt: 2018.6.2 int: english/english LuaTeX, Version 1.07.0 (TeX Live 2018) Thanks and Best Wishes Keith McKay

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